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Having Trouble with Kismet in BT4

I recently purchased an ALFA AWUS036H wireless USB adapter to use with BT4. I checked the wiki and it said that you have to alter the sources in the kismet.conf file to say "source=rt8180,wlan0,ALFA". I did this but then I get this error message:

Re: Having Trouble with Kismet in BT4

Blarg50 - try commenting out the "source=..." line you added and try these two lines in it's place.

Code:

ncsource=wlan0
ncsource=wlan1

If it works, then you can add driver and other set-up info if you want.

Here's what I got when I tried your suggestion.

Launching kismet_server: //usr/bin/kismet_server
Suid priv-dropping disabled. This may not be secure.
No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled.
Non-RFMon VAPs will be destroyed on multi-vap interfaces (ie, madwifi-ng)
Enabling channel hopping.
Enabling channel splitting.
FATAL: No packsources were enabled. Make sure that if you use an enablesource line that you specify the correct sources.
Done.

I'm going to try commenting out the sources line while keeping the two lines you recommended I should try.

Re: Having Trouble with Kismet in BT4

Update: I tried using both the source line and the ncsource lines you gave me at the same time, but it just gave me the " pcap reported netlink type 1 (EN10MB)" error message again. Then I tried the following:

Code:

ncsource=rt8180,wlan0,ALFA

and got the following error message:

Launching kismet_server: //usr/bin/kismet_server
Suid priv-dropping disabled. This may not be secure.
No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled.
Non-RFMon VAPs will be destroyed on multi-vap interfaces (ie, madwifi-ng)
Enabling channel hopping.
Enabling channel splitting.
FATAL: No packsources were enabled. Make sure that if you use an enablesource line that you specify the correct sources.
Done.

I did a little search on google and it seems the packsource indicates which interface you want Kismet to listen on to, but now I'm not sure why it's complaining because I've got all the information right there.

Re: Having Trouble with Kismet in BT4

I'm not sure why my last two posts did not show up, but I tried your suggestion and now it says it can't find any packet sources. I checked the kismet.conf file and it says that it's set to recognize all packet sources by default so I'm not sure what else is wrong. I'm editing the right kismet.conf file too at that.